Abdul Jabbar wants to die. Squatting beside his wife’s unconscious body, his 12 children and grandchildren huddled around him in a tiny, open tent of sticks and stitched sacks, the 65-year-old brushes ...

Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance is on the offensive and the United States seems to have responded to the group’s call for bombing Taliban front lines to clear the way for an advance. U.S. planes hit ...

With Security, Business Booms In Mazar-e Sharif by Charles Recknagel MAZAR-E SHARIF -- As the heat of the day subsides at dark, hundreds of families gather in a large amusement park on the outskirts ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck near one of Afghanistan's largest cities Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, the US Geological Survey said. The USGS issued an orange alert in its pager system, which ...

MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan -- Like every other candidate in the regional elections that will lead to a national political assembly in June, Gen. Abdurrashid Dostum was asked last week to choose a ...

The United Arab Emirates has expressed its solidarity with Afghanistan after a powerful quake struck near the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing dozens of people, injuring ...

Twice in the past four years, Northern Alliance commander Rashid Dostum has had to flee Mazar-i-Sharif, the city he once ruled. Once he had to bribe his own men to let him out of town before the ...

BERLIN, July 6 (Reuters) - Germany has closed its consulate general in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan in the course of the international military withdrawal, a diplomat said on Tuesday. The ...

The Pentagon is encouraged by reports that the Northern Alliance has captured the strategic town of Mazar-e-Shareef, after prolonged U.S. bombing weakened Taliban forces there. The U.S. officials ...